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Spike coal, tap hydro POWER Aug 12, 2013 Publisher: The Goan on Saturday The power sector will have to look at solutions that are innovative and out of the box and also seriously look at other models like Hydro power generation to loosen the grip on coal in the industry. Several private power producers, policy makers and other members of the industry were in the state last week for the 14th Regulators and Policymakers Retreat. Jayant Kawale, MD ( hydro and Renewable) Jindal Power Limited made a case f... |
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Jharkhand bags the award for rural domestic electrification Aug 08, 2013 Publisher: THE HINDU Jharkhand bagged the award for being the State with the fastest growing rural domestic electrification between 2001and 2011 at the recently concluded 14{+h} edition of the annual Regulators & Policymakers Retreat held in Goa. The event was organised by Independent Power Producers Association of India. The organisers said they chose Jharkhand because the State, which was carved out from Bihar in 2000, showed remarka... |
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BBMB wins best hydro power producer award Aug 07, 2013 Publisher: Hindustan Times The Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) received the Best Hydro Power Producer Award for excellent performance during 2012-13 during a function organised by the Independent Power Producers Association of India in Goa last week. The award was presented by additional secretary, union ministry of power, Devendra Chaudhry to BBMB chairman AB Agrawal. Those who attended the event included former chairman of Central Electricity Regulat... |
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Reliance Powerr seeks tariff hike for UMPPs Aug 06, 2013 Publisher: Times of India (Business) Mumbai Edition MUMBAI: Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power, which bagged three of the four ultra-mega power projects (UMPPs) in the country due to aggressive bidding, is now seeking tariff increase for all of its plants. The company is learnt to have approached the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to revise the tariff of Tilayia UMPP in Jharkhand to Rs 2.25 per unit, more than 25% increase from its original bid price of Rs 1.77 per unit.
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Dams not villians, but victims of Uttarakhand floods: Jindal Power MD Aug 04, 2013 Publisher: MSN The way ahead for India was to tap hydel power and not coal, which he said was both polluting and expensive. Dams across the Ganga were not villains in the Uttarakhand flood tragedy which claimed about a thousand lives and left several thousand missing, but victims, said Jayawant Kawale, managing director of Jindal Power, in the Goa capital. Kawale, whose special area of operation at the firm relates to hydro and renew... |
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Dams not villians, but victims of Uttarakhand floods: Jindal Power MD Aug 04, 2013 Publisher: DNA The way ahead for India was to tap hydel power and not coal, which he said was both polluting and expensive. Dams across the Ganga were not villains in the Uttarakhand flood tragedy which claimed about a thousand lives and left several thousand missing, but victims, said Jayawant Kawale, managing director of Jindal Power, in the Goa capital. Kawale, whose special area of operation at the firm relates to hydro and renew... |
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Convention seeks clarity on the role of power tariff regulator Aug 04, 2013 Publisher: THE HINDU Speakers at the 14th Regulators and Policymakers Retreat 2013 organised by IPPAI demanded clarity about the role of the power tariff regulator or a well-defined framework of intervention mechanism in power purchase agreements (PPAs) and contracts. At a session on “Failure of Competitive Bidding; Lack of Sanctity of Contract”, on Saturday at the on-going retreat... |
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Jindal Power may set up hydro plants in Tajikistan Aug 04, 2013 Publisher: Business Line Jindal Power, a subsidiary of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd, may explore the possibility of setting up hydro power plants in Tajikstan. “Tajikstan has invited us to look at their hydro potential,” Jayant Kawale, Managing Director (Hydro & Renewables), told PTI after a meeting with an official from the Central Asian country. Jindal Power is currently executing three hydro power projects in the Northeaster... |
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IL &FS; Energy aims to add 10,000 MW of power Aug 04, 2013 Publisher: THE ECONOMIC TIMES PANJIM: IL&FS Energy Development Company is executing 10,000 MW coal and gas based projects, and some of them are expected to start generation in the next one year, according to a top company official. "We have a 4,000 MW coal-based thermal power projects coming up in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. We will be sourcing coal for this plant from our coal mines in Indonesia. The plant has 6 units of which two will get commissioned b... |
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Jharkhand awaits Centre decision on PSU status for RPower plant Aug 04, 2013 Publisher: THE ECONOMIC TIMES PANJIM: The Jharkhand government is awaiting Centre's decision on granting public sector status to Reliance Power's Tilaiya plant, which if given would exempt the private firm from providing non-forest land in return for diverting forest land for the proposed mega power project. Projects by state-run companies are exempted from providing compensation in cases where forest land is diverted. Reliance Power's Tilaiya uni... |
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